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The morning panel will discuss gender, society and culture, and the afternoon panel will discuss the political economy and human rights. There will be opportunities for audience questions during each session.

Following the panel discussions from 5 to 6 p.m. is an exhibit on loan from Princeton University, "Miracles on the Border," a collection of ex-votos by Mexican migrants. Ex-votos (or retablos) are Mexican and Mexican American folk art paintings on copper or tin created by Mexican immigrants and their relatives. The paintings depict scenes of an event and represent a thank-you, miracle or supplication (prayer request) for a favor granted by a saint, the Virgen de Guadalupe, or El Sagrado Corazon (the Sacred Heart).

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Panelists and moderators

The first panel, which is on gender, society and culture, will be moderated by Juan Ramon de la Fuente, UNAM president, with panelists Amalia Dolores Garcia Medina, governor of the State of Zacateca, Mexico; Harriett Romo, director of the UTSA Mexico Center and UTSA associate professor of sociology; Manuel Ruiz de Chavez, president of Fundacion Mexicana para la Salud; Maria Isabel Belausteguigoitia, director of PUEG; and Martha I. Lara, consul general of Mexico in San Antonio.